Videos and Photos from C&B 2011 Now Available

Microsoft’s Channel 9 just posted their first video from C++ and Beyond 2011. It’s a post-event interview that Charles Torre conducted with me, Herb, and Andrei, so even if you attended C&B in Banff, it’s something you have not seen. (Whether you want to see yet more of us is a different matter.) We hope you like it.

I mentioned in an earlier posting that we’d be posting photos from C&B in Banff, and those are now available at the C&B flickr site. Some were taken at C&B itself, others are of the surrounding area. If you have photos from C&B that you’d like to share, send them to us, and we’ll see that they get added to the collection.

Pretty much all the documents associated with C++ standardization are freely available at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/. My understanding is that the FDIS and the final standard are, per ISO rules, not freely available, because selling them is one of the ways the standardization process gets funded.

C++ and Beyond is not part of C++ standardization, and the decision whether to publish videos of the sessions is made my Herb, Andrei, and me. We’ve agreed to make videos of the Q&A sessions available. Beyond that, Herb decides about the availability of video for his sessions, Andrei decides for his, and I decide for mine.

I’ve decided that, first, I don’t want to publish anything that’s not complete, so if a video is only partial or is missing some audio, I don’t want to make that available. (It’d be like publishing incomplete segments of a book, and I wouldn’t do that, either.) Second, given the enormous investment in time and energy it took to create my presentations for C++ and Beyond, and given that the people who attended invested significant time and money to see them, I’m disinclined to make the content freely available.